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Heraclitus

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• “τὰ ὄντα ἰέναι τε πάντα καὶ μένειν οὐδέν”

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• “πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει”

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  Recorded in: This statement occurs in Simplicius' Commentary on Aristotle's Physics, 1313.11; while some sources attribute to Simplicius the coining of the specific phrase "πάντα ῥεῖ (panta rhei)", meaning "everything flows/is in a …

• “δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης.”

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• “χαλεπώτερον ἡδονῇ μάχεσθαι ἢ θυμῷ”

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• “τὴν μεταβολὴν ὁδὸν ἄνω κάτω, τόν τε κόσμον γίνεσθαι κατ' αὐτήν.”

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• “αἰὼν παῖς ἐστι παίζων, πεσσεύων· παιδὸς ἡ βασιληίη.”

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  Recorded in: Quoted by Hippolytus, Refutation of all heresies, IX, 9, 4 (Fragment 52), as translated in Reality (1994), by Carl Avren Levenson and Jonathan Westphal, p. 10

• “# The Cosmos is child's play: a child playing chess as King.”

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• “#* Using English idioms to parallel the original's wordplay.”

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• “# History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.”

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• “#* A very free translation, as quoted in Contemporary Literature in Translation (1976), p. 21”

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• “# A lifetime is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.”

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• “#* As quoted in The Beginning of All Wisdom: Timeless Advice from the Ancient Greeks (2003) by Steven Stavropoulos, p. 95”

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• “# Time is a game played beautifully by children.”

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• “#* A free translation, as quoted in Fragments (2001) translated by Brooks Haxton”

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• “# Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.”

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• “#* As quoted in The Art and Thought of Heraclitus (1979) translated by Charles H. Kahn”

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• “χρὴ γὰρ εὖ μάλα πολλῶν ἴστορας φιλοσόφους ἄνδρας εἶναι”

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• “Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς, καὶ τοὺς μὲν θεοὺς ἔδειξε τοὺς δὲ ἀνθρώπους, τοὺς μὲν δούλους ἐποίησε τοὺς δὲ ἐλευθέρους.”

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• “# War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.”

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• “# War is the father and king of all, and has produced some as gods and some as men, and has made some slaves and some free. (G. T. W. Patrick, 1889)”

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• “#* Hippolytus, Ref. haer. ix. 9 (Fragment 53). Context: "And that the father of all created things is created and uncreated, the made and the maker, we hear him (Heraclitus) saying, 'War is the father and king of all,' etc.”

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• “#* Plutarch, de Iside 48, p. 370. Context, see frag. 43.”

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• “#* Proclus in Tim. 54 A (comp. 24 B).”

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• “#* Compare Chrysippus from Philodem. P. eusebeias, vii. p. 81, Gomperz.”

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• “#* Lucianus, Quomodo hist. conscrib. 2; Idem, Icaromen 8.”

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• “# See also: πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι, πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς”

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• “# Martin Heidegger, Parmenides (1942–1943)”

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• “Τίς γὰρ αὐτῶν νόος ἢ φρήν; [δήμων] ἀοιδοῖσι ἕπονται καὶ διδασκάλῳ χρέωνται ὁμίλῳ, οὐκ εἰδότες ὅτι πολλοὶ κακοὶ ὀλίγοι δὲ ἀγαθοί. αἱρεῦνται γὰρ ἓν ἀντία πάντων οἱ ἄριστοι, κλέος ἀέναον θνητῶν, οἱ δὲ πολλοὶ κεκόρηνται ὅκωσπερ κτήνεα.”

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• “# The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.”

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• “# For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all – immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle. (G.T.W. Patrick, 1889)”

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• “#: "The passage is restored as above by Bernays (Heraclitea i. p. 34), and Bywater (p. 43), from the following sources:”

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• “#:* Clement of Alex. Strom. v. 9, p. 682.”

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• “#:* Proclus in Alcib. p. 255 Creuzer, = 525 ed. Cous. ii.”

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• “#:* Clement of Alex. Strom. iv. 7, p. 586.”

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• “Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.”

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  Recorded in: in Eric Hoffer, Between the Devil and the Dragon (New York: 1982), p. 107

• “Greater fates gain greater rewards”

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• “The many are mean; only the few are noble.”

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  Recorded in: in Eric Hoffer, Between the Devil and the Dragon (New York: 1982), p. 108

• “τοῦ λόγου δ' ἐόντος ξυνοῦ ζώουσιν οἱ πολλοὶ ὡς ἰδίαν ἔχοντες φρόνησιν”

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• “οὐ γὰρ φρονέουσι τοιαῦτα [οἱ] πολλοί, ὁκόσοι ἐγκυρεῦσιν, οὐδὲ μαθόντες γινώσκουσιν, ἑωυτοῖσι δὲ δοκέουσι.”

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• “συνάψιες ὅλα καὶ οὐχ ὅλα, συμφερόμενον διαφερόμενον, συνᾷδον διᾷδον, καὶ ἐκ πάντων ἓν καὶ ἐξ ἑνὸς πάντα.”

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• “ποταμοῖσι τοῖσιν αὐτοῖσιν ἐμϐαίνουσιν, ἕτερα καὶ ἕτερα ὕδατα ἐπιρρεῖ.”

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• “ἐὰν μὴ ἔλπηται ἀνέλπιστον, οὐκ ἐξευρήσει”

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  Recorded in: Fragment 18, as quoted in The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments (1981) edited by Charles H. Kahn, p. 105

• “ἄνθρωπος ἐν εὐφρόνῃ φάος ἅπτεται ἑαυτῷ [ἀποθανὼν] ἀποσβεσθεὶς”

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• “κόσμον τόνδε, τὸν αὐτὸν ἁπάντων, οὔτε τις θεῶν οὐτε ἀνθρώπων ἐποίησεν, ἀλλ' ἦν ἀεὶ καὶ ἔστιν καὶ ἔσται πῦρ ἀείζωον, ἁπτόμενον μέτρα καὶ ἀποσβεννύμενον μέτρα”

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• “ἓν τὸ σοφὸν μοῦνον λέγεσθαι οὐκ ἐθέλει καὶ ἐθέλει Ζηνὸς ὄνομα”

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• “πολυμαθίη νόον οὐ διδάσκει”

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• “μάχεσθαι χρὴ τὸν δῆμον ὑπὲρ τοῦ νόμου ὅκωσπερ τείχεος”

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• “B49a. potamois tois autois …”

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• “Into the same rivers we step and do not step, we are and are not. (Heraclitus Homericus)”

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  Recorded in: Translated by Daniel W. Graham, "Heraclitus", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2021)

• “οὐκ ἐμοῦ, ἀλλὰ τοῦ λόγου ἀκούσαντας ὁμολογεῖν σο­φόν ἐστιν ἓν πάντα εἶναί”

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